ZURICH/TOKYO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group (9984.T), opens new tab has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab in a $5.4 billion deal, as the ...

The Pepper humanoid robot developed by SoftBank. SoftBank Group—controlled by Japan’s richest person, Masayoshi Son—has agreed to buy the robotics unit of Swiss industrial giant ABB Ltd. for $5.4 ...

The deal marks a major push by SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son into robotics, as he expands investment activity after a period of retrenchment. SoftBank, whose forays into robotics include the ...

Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank Group is buying a robotics company as the financial behemoth says physical AI is its next frontier. SoftBank announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Zurich ...

ZURICH/TOKYO :SoftBank Group has agreed to buy the robotics business of Swiss engineering group ABB in a $5.4 billion deal, as the Japanese investor forges ahead with a strategy to fuse robotics and ...

ABB’s robotics unit, which manufactures factory robots and industrial automation equipment, reported about $2.3 billion in revenue last year, representing roughly 7% of ABB’s total revenue and about ...

ABB is seeing a "robust" market situation with so far little impact on customer demand from the uncertainties caused by U.S.

Originally introduced to handle highly repetitive, low-weight tasks such as machine tending, assembly, and smaller packaging operations alongside humans, collaborative robots (cobots) have been ...

ABB, which makes motors and drives used in factory production lines, reported operating earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation increasing by 12% to $1.74 billion for the three months ...

SoftBank Group (SBG), led by Chairman Son Jeong-ui (Japanese name Masayoshi Son), said on the 8th that it had signed a contract to acquire the robotics business of Swiss conglomerate Asea Brown Boveri ...

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. SoftBank Group Corp. (SOBKY) is making another bold move in its AI playbook. The Japanese conglomerate has agreed to acquire ABB Ltd.'s industrial robotics ...